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How Fixed UVC Disinfection Systems Help Compensate for Broken Staffing Models

A Personnel Problem The labor shortage that currently plagues all sectors of the economy is also reflected by a healthcare workers shortage. Specifically, hospital staffing shortages continue to be a significant problem across the healthcare industry, especially the ongoing nurse shortage. It’s a challenge made worse by the ongoing impact of COVID-19 which, among a […]

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How UVC Disinfection Can Benefit Long Term Care Facilities

Who Lives in Long Term Care Facilities? Long term care facilities are for patients who require 24 hour medical care and monitoring. Patients who live in these facilities are often elderly or are recovering from serious medical events such as heart attack, stroke or cardiac surgeries. The Importance of Protecting Long Term Care Patients from […]

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Does UVC Disinfection Reduce the Presence of C.diff?

The number of C.diff infections has decreased in recent years because of improved prevention measures, such as UVC disinfection. Prevention measures are critical because 1 in 11 people over the age of 65 diagnosed with a C.diff infection die within 1 month.

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How to Prevent Cross-Contamination in Hospitals

Healthcare-associated infections (HAI) can easily spread by touching pieces of contaminated equipment and by not washing hands after contact with bodily fluids. If a surface is left uncleaned, it can easily become a source of cross-contamination.

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Why Cleaning Surfaces is Not Enough to Kill HAI

Infection Prevention Control (IPC) teams and Environmental Services (EVS) teams need to ensure that their infection control methods are effective at killing harmful pathogens that cause HAIs.

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Why Disinfection in Between Patient Procedures is Important

Infection prevention in 2022 is likely going to be marked by transformation. It will be critical for the industry to lead IP efforts, ensuring that disinfection tools, operational protocols, and innovation are aligned to both patient safety and growth goals.

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How UVC Disinfection Can Help Prevent HAI Outbreaks

Healthcare-associated infections are infections that patients can get while they’re receiving healthcare for another condition. They can be caused by bacteria, fungi, viruses, or other pathogens. They can happen in any healthcare facility, including hospitals, surgical centers, and long-term care facilities.

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The Benefits of Using UVC Disinfection in Hospitals

UVC radiation has effectively been used for decades to reduce the spread of bacteria and harmful pathogens. When bundled with manual cleaning and disinfection protocols, this technology significantly helps to reduce the presence of harmful pathogens.

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How to Minimize Room Turnover Time Between Patient Procedures

Optimizing patient throughput is essential to maintaining a well-operated healthcare facility. Inefficient throughput leads to fewer patients getting the care they need along with a wasteful use of resources—which can lead to a net loss in revenue.

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Chemical Disinfection & UVC Disinfection Defined

In today’s healthcare environment – including hyper awareness of virus transmission risk – hospitals need to choose technologies that can be measured and are able to provide the data needed to show proof of UVC dosing and compliance.

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3 Reasons Why Your Hospital Needs UVC Disinfection

Ultraviolet-C (UVC) disinfection is one type of no-touch technology shown to be a successful adjunct to manual cleaning.

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How to Protect Patients with UVC Disinfection

Hospital Acquired Infections (HAIs) can easily spread by touching pieces of contaminated equipment and by not washing hands after contact with contaminated surfaces. If a surface is left uncleaned, it can easily become a source of cross-contamination.

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Why Disinfection in Between Patient Procedures is Important

Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAIs) can easily spread by touching pieces of contaminated equipment and by not washing hands after contact with contaminated surfaces.

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How Does UVC Disinfection Work?

UVC technology deploys UV light to penetrate the cell walls of spores, bacteria and viruses, and renders harmful pathogens unable to reproduce and spread.

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Does UVC Light Kill Viruses & Germs?

Ultraviolet-C (UVC) disinfection is one type of no-touch technology shown to be a successful adjunct to manual cleaning in reducing environmental bioburden.

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UVC Disinfection on High-Touch Surfaces in Hospitals

High-touch surfaces can be prime sources for contracting Healthcare Associated Infections (HAIs). If these surfaces aren’t disinfected, they could transmit bacteria to healthcare workers’ hands and, in turn, they could potentially pass these harmful pathogens on to patients.

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Key Infection Prevention Roles in the Healthcare Industry

IPC is an evidence-based approach that prevents healthcare workers and patients from being harmed by avoidable infections.

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Using UV Light in Medical Facilities

In today’s healthcare environment, hospitals need to choose technologies that can be measured and are able to provide the data needed to show proof of UVC dosing and compliance.

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Manual Cleaning & UVC Disinfection: How to Maximize Both

Disinfection in addition to traditional cleaning methods is the best way to help ensure a cleaner, safer environment. According to the FDA, UVC radiation is a known disinfectant for air and nonporous surfaces.

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How to Complement Existing EVS Cleaning Protocols with UVC

Environmental Services (EVS) teams play a critical role in a hospital’s infection control efforts. Supported by hospital administrators and Infection Prevention (IP) leaders, EVS groups are responsible for deploying infection prevention measures that serve as a first line of defense against the spread of disease.

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How Faster Environmental Disinfection Can Increase Revenue

While there are many strategies to optimize patient throughput, the critical role of speed in disinfection practices has taken on new meaning in the current climate since it is a key evaluation metric when implementing disinfection solutions.

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A Checklist for Infection Prevention Compliance

HAIs exact great costs—in terms of human harm, and in the dollars spent to treat infections that could have been prevented with more diligent efforts.

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Ensure the Right UVC Dose in Your Healthcare Facility

In order to successfully tackle IP and bring HAI rates down, it is vital for healthcare facilities to ensure their disinfection procedures are actually working.

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How to Design Healthcare Facilities to Combat Infections

Many hospitals and other healthcare facilities are investing in new designs that not only enhance patient experience and ease staff burden, but also make these spaces safer by maximizing infection prevention features.

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How to Reduce Cross-Contamination and Prevent Infections

Hospital Acquired Infections (HAIs) can easily spread by touching pieces of contaminated equipment and by not washing hands after contact with bodily fluids. If a surface is left uncleaned, it can easily become a source of cross-contamination.

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Preparing for the Ongoing IP Needs of Today’s Healthcare Facilities

While the Covid-19 pandemic has been the most public target of disinfection efforts for the past two years, fighting ongoing healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) and antibiotic-resistant infections are still of critical concern for hospitals, urgent care centers, surgical facilities and other healthcare offices.

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How to Reassure Patients About Your Infection Prevention Protocols

Patients are worried about infection prevention now more than ever due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Many people are afraid to go to healthcare facilities due to fear of catching coronavirus and hospital acquired infections (HAIs) from another patient.

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Leading Journal Shows the Challenge of Antibiotic-Resistant Infections

While the Covid-19 pandemic has overshadowed almost any other health-related news for the past two years, the threat of antibiotic-resistant infections has not waned for patients throughout the world.

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How to Train New Healthcare Workers to Battle Infections

With so many new people in healthcare, it’s imperative that the industry build clear protocols, awareness campaigns, comprehensive training, and an underlying culture of infection prevention (IP) to ensure patient safety.

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How to Disinfect Hard-to-Reach Areas with UVC

It’s critical that hospitals ensure that infectious diseases do not spread from surface to surface, room to room, floor to floor, and between departments. This means that every surface must be cleaned and disinfected.

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The Renewed Focus on Disinfection Due to Covid-19

Since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, there’s been a renewed focus on disinfection. There has been a significant need for improved disinfection of procedure and treatment rooms, both after each procedure and on a continuous basis.

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How Location-Specific IP Protocols Will Prove Critical in the Coming Year

IP practices are not a one-size-fits-all solution for differing health delivery locations, staff, or patients. Not all rooms are the same shape and size, so IP protocol needs to be specific to each room.

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Infection Prevention Prognosis 2022

Infection prevention in 2022 is likely going to be marked by transformation. It will be critical for the industry to lead IP efforts, ensuring that disinfection tools, operational protocols, and innovation are aligned to both patient safety and growth goals.

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2022 Healthcare Trends to Watch

Ensure your facility is up-to-date on infection prevention trends and ready to address tomorrow’s infection risks through a reassessment of your processes, procedures, and IP solution investments.

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The Best Disinfection Methods for Military Healthcare Facilities

Deploying the best UVC hospital room disinfection system can strengthen the infection prevention plan for any site that serves military personnel, defense and homeland security staff, TSA agents, and the healthcare providers that work in these facilities.

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Effective IP Starts with Strong Military Healthcare Leaders

One of a military medical facility’s most useful weapons against harmful pathogens: infection prevention team leaders. While every military healthcare team member is responsible for patient safety, effective IP leaders help increase awareness and set the tone for a culture of infection prevention.

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Checklist for Evaluating Infection Prevention Solutions in Military Health System

As outpatient sites and VA centers continue to serve medical and dental patients throughout the globe, it is critical to mitigate opportunities for pathogen spread.

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How to Implement a Time-Efficient IP Method

While there are many strategies to optimize patient throughput while protecting patient safety, the critical role of speed in disinfection practices has taken on new meaning given the current environment.

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The Importance of Rapid Infection Prevention Methods

Rapid IP methods are vital to patient and staff safety, making both speed and efficacy key evaluation metrics when implementing disinfection solutions throughout a healthcare system.

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Hospital Infection Prevention (IP) Outlook

Infection prevention (IP) is a constant battle. To win it, hospital personnel must constantly strive to upgrade their plan of attack. It is never enough to simply follow current protocol. IP leaders have to monitor performance, track results over time, and explore ways to innovate their processes. In November 2019, the Centers for Disease Control […]

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4 Tips for Efficient and Effective Infection Prevention

On any given day, one in 31 hospital patients will battle a healthcare-associated infection (HAI), according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). To put that into perspective, approximately 1.7 million Americans develop infections from their stay in a hospital each year, and of those, nearly 100,000 are fatal. However, these numbers could […]

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Infection Control Throughout Your Entire Organization

Every year, healthcare-acquired infections (HAIs) plague two million patients and cost organizations upwards of $3 billion. But it’s not only patients who spread infections—an estimated 20 to 40 percent of HAIs are passed by a healthcare worker after they touch another patient or a contaminated surface. These numbers can be significantly reduced with a comprehensive […]

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Capital Investments in a Time of Value-Based Care

One of the complex responsibilities hospital management faces is year-end capital investment planning. In today’s move to value-based care, capital spending must be beneficial to patients, reduce costs, improve quality, and increase efficiency. Finding investments that hit those marks and offer healthcare leaders an appealing ROI is a formidable challenge. Here is a look at […]

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Empowering Infection Prevention Champions

Preventing healthcare-associated infections (HAI) should be a top priority at every hospital. On any given day, about one in 31 hospital patients is hit with an HAI, according to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). In any given year, the CDC estimates, almost 100,000 Americans with an HAI die. An effective Infection Protection (IP) team […]

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Long Term Care Facility Investments That Increase Infection Prevention Results

One of the complex responsibilities long term care facility management faces is planning for the unknown. Any healthcare crisis — whether it be from a natural disaster or a worldwide epidemic — affects every element of a LTCF’s plan. Long term care, nursing home, and assisted living facilities’ leaders understand they need to include unknowns […]

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How to Perform an Infection Prevention Gap Assessment

More than 5 million Americans are admitted to or reside in a range of long term care and assisted living facilities each year. These patients and residents consider this facility their home and rely on it for their well being and safety. But the typical demographic makeup of long term care, nursing home, and assisted […]

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Differentiate Your Hospital Through Infection Prevention Promotion

Healthcare is the fastest growing industry in the United States with 75% of all hospitals having a competitor within 15 miles. Now more than ever, it’s more important for hospitals and healthcare centers to differentiate from one another. One way to set yourself apart is by using your IP data as a tool to promote […]

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Speed Throughput. Save Money. Ensure IP Efficacy.

Controlling and managing the flow of patients in a busy hospital is one of the biggest challenges facing healthcare administrations today. While more patients are a good thing for your bottom line, inefficient patient throughput leads to fewer patients getting the care they need and an inefficient use of resources and assets for your organization—which […]

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The Operating Room of the Future

The healthcare industry has always been at the forefront of innovation. Today’s patients expect that their hospital will have the latest, most technically advanced solutions to heal and keep them well, both during surgery and recovery. So, just what will leading hospital ORs look like in the future—even the very near future of tomorrow? Which […]

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Building a Culture of Infection Prevention at Your Hospital

Create a culture that understands, supports, and innovates IP practices throughout the healthcare system.

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Which UV Technology is Right for your OR / Procedure Room?

Choose the best UVC solution for maximum infection prevention.

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How to Ensure You’re Ready to Combat The Next Risk of Infection

Ensure your facility is future-proofed for today and tomorrow’s infection risks through a reassessment of your processes, procedures, and IP solution investments.

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Are You Ready to Combat The Next Infection Risk?

Healthcare leaders must be ready to combat the next infection risk while also mitigating today’s known pathogens including MRSA, C. difficile, and the current Coronavirus strain.

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CDC Acknowledges Coronavirus is an Airborne Threat

According to the New York Times, the CDC has updated public guidance about how the coronavirus spreads, emphasizing that transmission occurs by inhaling very fine respiratory droplets and aerosolized particles.

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An Operating/Procedure Room’s Checklist for Evaluating Infection Prevention Solutions

Critical considerations as surgical center leaders deploy infection prevention measures throughout their location.

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A Dentist’s Checklist for Evaluating Infection Prevention Solutions

Evidence-based infection prevention procedures and technologies enable you to maintain the safest dental environment.

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US Navy’s MARMC Uses RD-UVC to Safely Deliver Maintenance Support to Ships

RD-UVC’s leading infection prevention technology is being used to disinfect critical ship elements that allow MARMC to do their work and keep crews safe.

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CDC: Reduce Risk from Surfaces

If your organization is going to tackle IP and bring HAI rates down, it is vital to come up with a surface-disinfection plan that is easy to implement, comprehensive, and effective.

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3 Ways to Prevent Infections at Military Base Medical Facilities

Experts say that 55 to 70 percent of all HAIs are preventable so understanding how to combat infections at military base and other medical facilities is critical.

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Infection Prevention Starts With Military Healthcare Leaders

One of a military medical facility’s most useful weapons against harmful pathogens: your infection prevention team leaders.

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Improve Infection Prevention & Increase Revenue

Now more than ever, an operating/procedure room needs to have a flawless cleaning and disinfection plan in place.

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How Dentists Can Tackle Infection Prevention

Millions of Americans are exposed to potential HAI’s from a dental office. To fight harmful pathogens, it is vital to come up with an infection prevention (IP) plan that specifically addresses dental office environments, patient populations, and potential risks.

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How UVC Light Battles Airborne Pathogens

Now more than ever it is critical that all healthcare providers ensure that infectious diseases do not spread from surface to surface, room to room, and through airborne contamination.

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Improve Surgical Center Throughput & Revenue

It’s critical that leadership understands the role of infection prevention in improving throughput and revenue while keeping patients safe.

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Four Ways to Improve Infection Prevention in Your Dental Practice

With threats to patient safety in and out of the front door daily, it’s critical to implement a series of IP procedures that are enforced and followed by every member of the dental practice team.

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US Navy Begins UVC Disinfecting Pilot Program using RD UVC System

The Navy’s Mid-Atlantic Regional Maintenance Center (MARMC) is using RD UVC to disinfect surface areas and air to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 virus.

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TMC Bonham Hospital adds Rapid Disinfector™ UV Disinfection System

TMC Bonham Hospital has added a layer of infection prevention through a gift from the Fannin County Hospital Authority.

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New England Journal of Medicine: C. diff burden down 25%

While the deadly pathogen on everyone’s minds might be Coronavirus, it’s important to continue the fight against HAIs, most notably C. difficile, which is among the deadliest.

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Cleaning out COVID-19 at U of U Health

RD UVC is proud to be part of the University of Utah Health Hospital’s response to the Covid-19 outbreak.

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Show Me The Evidence!

Steven Baiocchi, COO has recently been quoted in Health Care Purchasing’s article “Show me the evidence!”

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4 Ways to Improve Infection Prevention in Your Hospital

With infection threats to patient safety occurring daily, how does your IP team employ the right strategies? Read these four ways to improve IP in your hospital.

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Effective Infection Prevention Starts With Strong Leaders

Combat HAIs by putting the right IP leadership in place.

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What’s Ahead in Hospital Infection Prevention?

To increase chances fighting deadly infections, IP professionals must stay on top of the leading IP technology and techniques.

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Boost Throughput Without Sacrificing Patient Safety

Cut annual costs, decrease HAIs, and increase revenue with the right UVC solution.

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Focus Your IP Plan on the Biggest HAI Culprits

One good place to start your IP plan is focusing upon areas of highest concern and highest possibility of mitigation.

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Capital Investment in IP Can Yield Long-Term ROI

IP tools can decrease HAI rates and represent long-term ROI for any hospital’s capital expenditures.

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Contagion Live Article: Fighting C.diff The Proven Way

Find out why RD UVC is proven to fight C. diff.

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Evidence-Based IP Solutions

Selecting a partner that provides evidence-based data to show IP results is the best way to accomplish your disease prevention goals.

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IP Cost-Saving Solutions For Environmental Services

An AJIC published study showed that even a 20% reduction in C.diff cases as a result of RD-UVC could save the average hospital $1.365M annually.

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5 Ways to Convince Leadership That More IP Investment is Needed

Read these five tips to convince your hospital’s leadership to focus more on IP.

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Patients Care About Hospital HAI’s and How You Prevent Them

93% of people say hospital infection rates influence their decision in choosing a hospital; find out how to set your hospital apart by promoting its strong IP practices.

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Proof of Compliance to Prevent HAIs

Bundling IP strategies is proven to reduce the spread of HAIs.

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Is Infection Control Your Top Priority?

Learn why not prioritizing can pose health and financial risks.

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Why Every Medical Department Should Prioritize Infection Control

Implementing IP procedures that followed by every team member will allow your hospital to operate without disruption from HAIs.

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Infection Prevention Strategies for your ER & Patient Rooms

Prevent the spread of infection with these effective infection prevention strategies for the most susceptible areas of the hospital.

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A Multi-Room Approach to IP

Utilizing a bundled IP approach across all hospital rooms ensures maximum protection from the spread of harmful infections.

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RD UVC Needed to Slow Down Deadly Fungus

Deadly fungus that’s killed 300 people brings to light the need for better effective IP strategies.

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Ensuring Room Readiness: A Checklist

Check out our checklist to help your team ensure the OR is sterile and ready for the next patient.

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Infection Control & the OR of the Future

The Operating Room of the Future will revolutionize surgery, making it minimally invasive, more effective, and safer. Learn more about how your hospital can be ready for tomorrow’s patients.

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HAI Reporting Shouldn’t Limit IP Presence

A recent report indicates that time devoted to mandated IP reporting can hinder actual infection control efforts.

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Workplace Infection Risks are Evolving According to CDC Report

A report published by the CDC looks at HAI risks to employees.

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USA Today Article: Combating Staph Infections

The right IP tools can help every U.S. hospital follow the lead of 249 institutions that eliminated MRSA infections.

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5 Tips for Incorporating UVC into your IP Plan

Learn how your IP and EVS can collaborate to perform an infection control gap assessment.

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How to Perform a Hospital IP Gap Assessment

Read what an effective gap assessment and IP plan should contain, how to identify evidence-based solutions, get cost and ROI calculation support, and see our guide to develop quality reporting.

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How to incorporate UVC into your IP Plan

Learn how your IP and EVS can collaborate to perform an infection control gap assessment.

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A Model for Choosing an Automated Ultraviolet-C Disinfection System

Environmental disinfection has become the new frontier in the ongoing battle to reduce the risk of health care–associated infections.

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Post-discharge Decontamination of MRSA, VRE, and Clostridium Difficile Isolation Rooms

UVC devices are effective adjuncts to manual cleaning but vary in their ability to disinfect high concentrations of organisms in the presence of protein.

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Clostridium Difficile Spore Inactivation Study Using Ultraviolet-C Energy

The RD UVC System UV-C System was highly effective in reducing Clostridium difficile spores on contaminated surfaces.

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RD UVC System Outperforms Competitive UV-C Disinfection System in an Independent Study

A new independent study demonstrates that the Steriliz R-D™ Rapid Disinfector™ is the proven ultraviolet-C (UV-C) disinfection solution of choice for combating pathogens that cause healthcare-associated infections (HAIs).

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